Chapter 22: The Distant Maiden
This is the temple of her creation. ”
Xue Erxun looked at her: "How is it, would you like to go down with me?"
Yi Fu looked at the endless abyss, she showed some hesitation at first, but then she thought that Xue Erxun had no reason to lie to her, what she just said was also true to her dream, if these were lies, she could not have made up a lie that was almost the same as her dream.
Thinking of this, Yi Fu also had a little more confidence, nodded and said, "Then I will trouble you to lead the way." ”
So, the woman who symbolized the sun stretched out her hand and made an invitation to her.
She took her hand as well.
"Hold on. Xueer said with a smile.
In the next second, Ifu felt the manic wind, and the smell of wet earth.
The attraction of the abyss sucked them in, and then she heard the mire re-disguise herself, and she felt like her body was heavy, as if a thousand pounds of dirt were pressing on her, and it was difficult to breathe.
"Wake up, Ayin. ”
Feeling someone around her shaking her, Yifu opened her eyes and saw Xue Erxun sitting next to her, her face full of worry.
"Are we there?" she sat up, looking around.
They were just ordinary dirt walls, and when she looked closely, she saw that they were sitting on a not-so-spacious slope that was attached to the dirt wall, and poked her head out to look beyond the slope, next to which was a deeper abyss.
"I don't know what went wrong, maybe I haven't operated for too long, so I can't go straight to the bottom. Xue Erxun looked apologetic, and then pulled Yi Fu up from the ground.
"Do you want to try again? Ah, can you fly?" she glanced at the abyss again, and although she couldn't see the bottom, she thought that as long as she flew slowly, it shouldn't be a big problem.
"No, that's going to break you. ”
Xue Erxun immediately denied her idea.
"This place is affected by the leylines of the Kevia Great Forest, and it will be a little unsteady to walk here, let alone flying, and some magic or something, it is easy to deviate when cast, so in case something happens, I can't guarantee that we can take protective measures to deal with it. ”
"Understood, then we can only go on. Yi Fu nodded, and then asked, "By the way, how long does it take to get from here to the destination?"
“...”
There was a moment of embarrassment on Xue Erxun's face, and then she raised her head and smiled at her: "Well, let's go first." ”
“?”
Yifu looked at Xue Erxun, and she sneered and turned around to walk down.
"I always have a feeling that you've been fooled. ”
"yes, yes, maybe it's a delusion. ”
The two of them held on to the wall, walking one after the other.
"Is there a secret down here?" asked Ifu.
"Hmm. Xue Erxun nodded, expressing affirmation, but did not continue to say anything, Yi Fu thought that she was unwilling to speak, so she did not ask again, but Xue Erxun suddenly opened her mouth after a while.
"You know that some of the places in the Tin Throne that require space-time magic have been working lately?"
"Could it have something to do with the secrets here?" said Ifu with special concern at the mention of space-time magic.
"To be honest, I'm not sure yet, but because of this incident, the World Tree has also been somewhat affected, and the peace has been disturbed by some arrogant people, resulting in the World Tree refusing to talk to the royal family now, which is not a good thing..."
Although Xue Erxun seems to be just an ordinary craftsman who gathers all kinds of plants and trees, but in fact she is not, she seems to know more about the Tin Throne than many nobles, for some reason, Yi Fu always thinks she is amazing, and seems to be involved, but she just stands in the distance, looking at the whole world.
She knows everything, but she doesn't want to expose herself to the world, but silently observes and does things she doesn't hate to kill time.
Of course, all this is just Ifu's wild speculation.
But she always felt that the woman whose name means sun in Elvish language would be the sun of the Tin Throne and the sun of the World Tree.
"Speaking of the Megalomaniacs, do you know anything about who they are? Rumor has it that the Twelve Churches or the White Nights Church did it. Seeing that she knew more about these things, Ifu asked casually.
"What do you think?" asked Xue Erxun instead of answering directly, as if he wanted to hear her opinion.
"To be honest, I don't know anything about the White Nights Church, but after some of my previous investigations, and the story you told, I think the Twelve Churches are more suspicious. ”
"Well, that's not hard to guess. She nodded, affirming Ifu's words.
"But what I don't understand is that they were supposed to want to take the World Tree for themselves when they were a demitheist, right?
"I don't know much about this, so I want to ask you to help me, but our immediate priority is to find out the cause of the failure of space-time magic as soon as possible, and restore the balance of the World Tree. Xue Erxun said this, looking at her slightly: "Would you like to?"
"Of course, I said I would help you get what you wanted. Yi Fu agreed, of course, her heart was far more positive than she appeared, originally thought that following Xue Erxun would do some troublesome tasks of collecting plants and trees, and trying her best to persuade her, but she didn't expect to have direct access to her true purpose, which made her feel very excited.
"I always feel like you're very concerned about this and know a lot about it. She suddenly curled the corners of her mouth, looked at Ifu with a smile, and then twisted her head away, even if she didn't look, she could imagine how funny Yifu's expression must have been when she heard this.
"You, how do you know. ”
Sure enough, a slightly embarrassed voice came from behind him.
"Oh? Looks like I guessed right?"
Xue Erxun pretended to be suddenly enlightened.
"Did you guess?"
"Of course not, I'm teasing you, when you weren't deeply shocked by my words and said that the rumors were the Twelve Churches or the White Nights Church, I knew that you must know something, after all, this is confidential information, even if I am close to the World Tree, but hearing such information, ordinary people will not be so calm. ”
"I was negligent, but the provider wasn't very sure about the information I knew, so I went to investigate, but... For some other reason, I'm not as 'insider' as you might think. ”
"I see. ”
Seeing that Xue Erxun nodded, Yi Fu thought that she was a subconscious action to understand her words, and did not think about it at a deeper level.